How to Read Your Water Meter

    We encourage our customers to read their water meters regularly. Your water meter is read monthly, and your consumption is determined by subtracting the previous month’s reading from the current month’s reading. Water meters are highly accurate and dependable for water consumption evaluation.

    Our meter reading Cycle is from the 15th of a month to the 15th of the following month, that usage is billed and mailed to you around the first of the following month.
    Ex:
The bill you receive on the 1st of January is for the usage from the 15th of November to the 15th of December

    You will notice that your residential water meter has only one dial. The dial has a sweep hand which measures water usage in gallons. The meter operates like the odometer in your car. On the example meter above the meter reads 0385940. (The last number is a permanent number and the next dial registers in tens.) The remaining dials register the actual (in hundreds) water used. The water bill would show a current reading of 385940.

    Subtract the previous reading from the new reading and you will know how many gallons of water you have used.

If the previous reading in NOVEMBER was 3859400

If the current reading in DECEMBER was 38712 the bill mailed in January would indicate a usage of 1,180 gals.